Lubuntu 12.10 is currently installed and seem to be working well. The built-in wifi card is only Wireless G, which isn't bad, but I'm trying out a Tenda W311MI "Pico USB Adapter" to get Wireless N, and it's averaging 70-80Mb/s. I'm concerned about losing or damaging this tiny little adapter when packing up the laptop, since it does stick out, and when I plugged in another USB device it stopped responding. So I may still eventually replace the internal wifi card, though it looks like major surgery.
To enable screen rotation to portrait mode when using it as a tablet, I did the following, combining instructions from Steve Welburn's post here, as well as some Ubuntu forum threads that I can't seem to find anymore.
I switched to the proprietary tested Nvidia drivers (launch Software Updater, click Settings and go to the Additional Drivers tab), restarted, and then generated an xorg.conf with the following command:
Then edit the generated /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add the following to the last "Device" section
Check what the detected input devices for the stylus are:
This will produce a listing like the following: it's the Serial Wacom Tablet stylus and eraser that we want.
The shell script is below, I put mine in /usr/local/bin and made a menu shortcut to it.
I wanted to use the "rotate" button built into the Tecra's monitor. After some Google searching I found that the following would display what keycodes were bound to it:
As it turns out, that button is bound to "Windows Key + 6". In order to trigger the hotkey, I had to edit my ~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml and add the following at the end of the other "keybind" items:
I don't think there's a global lubuntu-rc.xml so if you want to share customized hotkeys with other users on the same computer you have to update the lubuntu-rc.xml in their profile.
This will produce a listing like the following: it's the Serial Wacom Tablet stylus and eraser that we want.
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint id=10 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ ALPS PS/2 Device id=11 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Serial Wacom Tablet stylus id=12 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Serial Wacom Tablet eraser id=14 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Toshiba input device id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
#!/bin/sh # Find the line in "xrandr -q --verbose" output that contains current screen orientation and "strip" out current orientation. rotation="$(xrandr -q --verbose | grep 'connected' | egrep -o '\) (normal|left|inverted|right) \(' | egrep -o '(normal|left|inverted|right)')" # Using current screen orientation proceed to rotate screen and input tools. stylus="Serial Wacom Tablet stylus" eraser="Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" mouse="PS/2 Mouse" touchpad="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" case "$rotation" in normal) # -rotate to the right xrandr -o right xsetwacom set "$stylus" rotate CW xsetwacom set "$eraser" rotate CW ;; right) # -rotate to normal xrandr -o normal xsetwacom set "$stylus" rotate NONE xsetwacom set "$eraser" rotate NONE ;; esac
As it turns out, that button is bound to "Windows Key + 6". In order to trigger the hotkey, I had to edit my ~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml and add the following at the end of the other "keybind" items:
I don't think there's a global lubuntu-rc.xml so if you want to share customized hotkeys with other users on the same computer you have to update the lubuntu-rc.xml in their profile.
And that's it!